White-tailed deer don’t have to be the only game that benefits from a well-planned food plot. While every reader of this fine magazine is passionate about whitetails in some way, shape or form, many of us are also interested in helping, and often hunting, other game.
Wild turkeys come to mind first. These magnificent gamebirds (or are they big game?) share the landscape and habitat with deer almost everywhere whitetails roam. Who doesn’t love seeing a flock of wild turkeys feed pass by while waiting for a buck in fall? Plus, you can’t hunt deer in spring — turkeys fill the void, and in exciting fashion.
Much of deer country across the Upper Midwest also doubles as pheasant country. Hunting ringnecks with my little French Brittany Lark is one of the joys of my life, and I often hear roosters cackling from my deer stand in November.
